After Darkness Essay

The most important items in the story are the darkness, the sunlight, and the chains. The sunlight represents enlightenment of the mind, understanding, and knowledge. While the darkness represents ignorance, lacking of knowledge,…

Paul Bogard wrote an article about the ways in which the world has seen a severe decrease in darkness, as well as a severe increase in of artificial light, at night. He begins by telling the reader of the world of darkness he used to know. He goes over how darkness is beneficial, even necessary, to earth’s ecology. After going over the wats darkness is helpful, he explains the balance of bright day and dark night that the world has, until recently, always known, and how we’re disrupting that…

Eriko and Yuichi. Later, Eriko passes away, devastating Mikage. She is once again left hopeless and in the dark, missing a part of her family. However, the light found within the darkness serves as hope for finding family, portraying that in life, there is an inherent balance…

In this work (Araby) by James Joyce, we see many motifs, themes, and symbols. One that sticks out is that of the schoolboy whose life seems to include an inordinate amount of darkness for someone his age. While most young boys are doing their best to cause mischief and have as good a time as possible, this boy seems to have a few images of light in his life, which causes a dark foreboding over the story. This is presented through images of death and decay, in his immediate surroundings and the…

beautiful I stopped breathing. Then it was all gone. The darkness…

long ago. A distant memory. Now I wonder if it was worth it but back then it, meant everything. I came from a dark grimy place. Day after day I could see nothing but black encompassing darkness. It was cold, rough and scary. In hush whispered terms brother spoke of a different world, a faraway place, where the darkness couldn’t reach us. Back then I thought it was just a fairytale. I never believed I would someday be a part of that world, that glorious, radiant, dangerous world. My brothers…

Paul Bogard effectively made use of his article “Let There Be Dark” to inform his audience about the importance of preserving natural darkness at night. He effectively build his argument by using personal anecdotes, simile, appealing to emotions and logic,and offering solutions. Paul begins introducing his article by using personal anecdotes and memories. He remembers having the opportunity to see nighty skies and meteors, but unfortunately children in United States today are unable to…

see in the universe can also be seen in James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues”. In “Sonny’s Blues”, James Baldwin looks past the normal literary uses of light and dark imagery as representing good and bad, but instead uses them to capture characters’ hardships, their struggles with racial injustice, and the loss of innocence of childhood. Immediately from the opening scene, Baldwin introduces the notion of darkness to represent suffering in the lives of the characters in the story. Right…

John Proctor poor, poor Proctor… Darkness blackness, Darkness a place of complete silence, Darkness a place of protection. Darkness may be a bizarre word to associate with protection, nevertheless, some individual use darkness as a source of protection. The people that used darkness as protection will always have light shed into their darkness. In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller one of the play's main characters, John Proctor, has a secret of having an affair with Abigail Williams and…

As it is seen in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, the darkness that the old man and the older waiter feel can be expressed as an evilness that surrounds them. The darkness in the old man has led him to almost committing suicide. The older waiter however senses the darkness in the bar that he is in which is why he prefers the clean cafe as he has tried to explain to the young waiter on how the old man felt. In Isolation, that evilness is the mutated calf that is trying to cause harm to the people…